Ray Hadley\u2019s explosive text messages about Alan Jones have been revealed, with a court hearing he promised to \u201ctear his supporters apart\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Jones, 85, has pleaded not guilty to 20 counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual touching having denied the allegations made by six male complainants.<\/p>\n
One man, who can only be known as Complainant C, has alleged Mr Jones grabbed his penis over his clothing while driving and at a Sydney restaurant and kissed him in the lifts at the 2GB studios and the ex-broadcaster\u2019s Circular Quay home.<\/p>\n
C told the court during his evidence last month that he tearfully confided his allegations about Mr Jones to Mr Hadley in October 2019.<\/p>\n
Mr Hadley returned to the witness box on Tuesday and was cross-examined by Mr Jones\u2019 barrister Gabrielle Bashir SC.<\/p>\n
The wink<\/p>\n
After an action-packed day of evidence, Ms Bashir on Wednesday afternoon questioned whether Mr Hadley had winked to the prosecution.<\/p>\n
Mr Hadley then claimed that he was winking at a journalist in the public gallery who referred to him as \u201cscruffy\u201d in a story on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
However, he was pointing at the wrong journalist \u2014 and the journalist did not refer to him as \u201cscruffy\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Hadley also denied he had a \u201cvested interest\u201d in the outcome of the trial.<\/p>\n
\u201cI certainly don\u2019t have any vested interest at all,\u201d Mr Hadley replied.<\/p>\n
Mr Hadley will return to the witness box on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u2018Bury him\u2019<\/p>\n
The court has been told C first publicly aired his allegations about Mr Jones in a story written by journalist Kate McClymont in December 2023.<\/p>\n
Three days later, Mr Hadley sent C a text message calling Mr Jones a \u201clow c***\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe low c**t will know he is not just taking on victims, he\u2019s taking on me and Kate,\u201d Mr Hadley said in the text, the court was told.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t rest until we bury him.\u201d<\/p>\n
In another text message, Jones said: \u201cThat c*** will be in the foetal position when he reads the story in the morning. It\u2019s been 50 years in the making.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a further text message said he would \u201ctear his supporters apart\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2018Destroyed\u2019<\/p>\n
The court was told on Wednesday that Mr Hadley sent C a text on October 19, 2019 saying \u201cthis bloke needs to be destroyed\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy \u2018this bloke\u2019 you meant Mr Jones?\u201d Ms Bashir asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cCorrect,\u201d Mr Hadley replied.<\/p>\n
The message was on the same day that C confided his allegations about Mr Jones to Mr Hadley.<\/p>\n
\u2018Outed\u2019<\/p>\n
The court was told that in October 2019, Mr Hadley used a homophobic slur to refer to Mr Jones in a text message to C.<\/p>\n
C made a tearful confession to Mr Hadley, about his allegations concerning Mr Jones, around the same time, the court was told.<\/p>\n
The court was told that Mr Hadley said in the message: \u201cJones outed as an f***ot.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this case, you used those words in relation to Mr Jones in that message,\u201d Ms Bashir asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt appears to be the case, yes,\u201d Mr Hadley replied.<\/p>\n
He was asked if he would regularly use the word to describe Mr Jones, Mr Hadley said \u201cI used it here\u201d but it was \u201cnot a word I would normally use\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou harboured animosity towards Mr Jones at the time didn\u2019t you?\u201d Ms Bashir asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t happy with him,\u201d Mr Hadley replied.<\/p>\n
\u2018Grub\u2019<\/p>\n
Mr Hadley has told the court that he would regularly refer to Mr Jones in colourful terms.<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout 2019 you regularly called Mr Jones a grub, didn\u2019t you,\u201d Ms Bashir asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did,\u201d Mr Hadley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou used many derogatory names,\u201d Ms Bashir asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did,\u201d Mr Hadley replied.<\/p>\n
Mr Hadley denied that he was enduring a \u201cdifficult\u201d time because Mr Jones had been re-signed as breakfast host.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot at all, I maintained the same job I\u2019d done for the previous 17 years and inadvertently Mr Jones had doubled my salary,\u201d Mr Hadley said.<\/p>\n
Ms Bashir suggested to him that he had been \u201cdumped\u201d from the breakfast slot.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was quite happy to be dumped,\u201d Mr Hadley said.<\/p>\n
\u2018C**t and a dog\u2019<\/p>\n
The court was told that in 2019 a 2GB staffer made an assault allegation against Mr Hadley, but he was cleared by CCTV.<\/p>\n
He told the court that he was told that Alan Jones \u201cmarshalled the troops and said \u2018dig up some dirt on Hadley\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The court was told that Mr Hadley told police he went into Mr Jones\u2019 office and called him a \u201cc**t\u201d and a dog\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, it would be something I\u2019d say,\u201d Mr Hadley told the court.<\/p>\n
\u2018The money made me do it\u2019<\/p>\n
Mr Hadley told the court that in late 2018 and early 2019 he was offered the chance to take over Mr Jones\u2019 breakfast show at the start of the next financial year, saying 2GB management offered to double his salary from $2m to $4m.<\/p>\n
He denied the breakfast slot was the \u201cpinnacle\u201d of radio, pointing out his morning show was simulcast on 62 stations.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, the pinnacle was going from two to four million was my main motivation,\u201d Mr Hadley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t want to get out of bed at half-past one, but the money made me do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he was approached by then-2GB owner John Singleton, who told him he had \u201chad enough\u201d of Mr Jones.<\/p>\n
The court was told that Mr Jones was ultimately re-signed by 2GB in 2019 however retired in 2020.<\/p>\n
Mr Hadley said his deal to go to breakfast because Mr Singleton was selling the station at the time.<\/p>\n
He said Macquarie Radio executive Russell Tate told him that Nine \u2013 who was purchasing the station at the time \u2013 wanted Mr Hadley to remain on the breakfast show.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said, \u2018If you don\u2019t stand down, you\u2019re going to cost Singo $80 million\u2019,\u201d Mr Hadley told the court.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, Singo was a friend of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he agreed to stay on mornings and 2GB agreed to honour his $4m salary.<\/p>\n
Only a handful of executives knew about his contract to take over breakfast, Mr Hadley said.<\/p>\n
The alleged kisses<\/p>\n
In the last of his evidence-in-chief, Mr Hadley told the court that C told him that Mr Hadley kissed him in two lifts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI recall there were two lifts mentioned and a home mentioned,\u201d Mr Hadley said.<\/p>\n
Mr Hadley testified on Tuesday that the man told him: \u201cHe put his hand on my c**k and kissed me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Hadley said C told him Mr Jones kissed him in the lifts at the 2GB studios and grabbed him on the penis while driving in his car.<\/p>\n
He said C alleged that Mr Jones touched him \u201con a regular basis\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked him if he was homosexual and whether he was consenting to it,\u201d Mr Hadley told the court.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe broke down and cried and said, \u2018No, I hated it. I\u2019m not homosexual\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Hadley said C told him he was \u201cembarrassed and ashamed that he allowed it to happen\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said C also told him Mr Jones had touched him under a table at a luncheon.<\/p>\n
Mr Hadley said he offered to make a complaint to 2GB\u2019s owners and management on C\u2019s behalf or support him if he wanted to go to police.<\/p>\n
He said C expressed that he did not want to come forward because he believed it would \u201cruin\u201d his career because Mr Jones was \u201ctoo powerful\u201d.<\/p>\n